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inabarcable

all-encompassing

adjective een-ah-bahr-KAH-bleh Rare
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Origin: From in- (not) + abarcable (able to be encompassed), from abarcar (to encompass, span).

Also means

too vast to grasp

Usage Note

Inabarcable describes something so large or complex that it cannot be fully contained, surveyed, or grasped — a subject, a landscape, a task. It is invariable for gender and adds -s for plural. The base verb abarcar ('to span, to embrace') is itself worth knowing: abarcar demasiado means to bite off more than you can chew. Inabarcable is more formal than enorme and implies conceptual immensity rather than mere size.

Examples

"El universo es inabarcable para la mente humana."

Natural Translation

The universe is too vast to grasp for the human mind.

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